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Arrest last leader

ATHENS—The last remaining
elected union official in Greece,
General Secretary Antonios Am-
batielos, is now facimg court
martial. Since Christmas, 2,000
union members have been ar-
rested for opposing the govern-
ment’s repressive measures.
Greek law imposes the death
penalty on strikers.

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Secret fund raised

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ROME—A secret meeting of the
Italian Industrialists Association
has decided to levy a self-impos-,
ed tax on all its members to
raise a fund to fight the labor
movement and support the Chris-
tian Democratic Party in the next
elections, it has been learned
here. Many of those contributing
to the fund are the same indus-
trialists’ who financed Mussolini.

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Union split foiled

‘HONOLULU — Amos Ignacio’s
efforts to split the International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse-
men’s Union (CIO)—inspired by
the employers, praised by the
redbaiting governor and hailed by:
by the press as the dawn of a
new era in labor relations—have
ended in flat. failure. A secret
poll of sugar plantation workers
on the island of Hawaii showed
5,500 in. favor of staying in the
IUWV and 125 in favor of fol-
lowing Ignacio out of the union.
Ignacio, a former ILWU sugar
local vice-president, had claimed
4,000 supperters. Estimated ILWU
membership on the island is 6,500.

Alliance retained

ROME — Despite persistent
American-inspired efforts to pro-
mote a split, the Italian Socialist
Party at its annual congress last
week voted overwhelmingly to
continue its alliance with the
Communist Party in the April
general elections, The vote Show-
ed: 519,616 votes in favor of 2
Communist Socialist front and a
single electoral lst, and only
4337 in favor ‘of conditional sup-
port of the front, a separate
election list and support of the
Marshall plan.

Speculator held

ATHENS.—-A member cf the
US. mission in Greece, George
Gardner, will be brought to trial
February 10 on charges of spec-
ulation in the black market. Gard-
ner, deputy chief of the relief di-
vision on Dwight Griswold’s staff,
is charged with selling $12,00 at
the black market rate to an in-
dustrialist, N. Eliopoulos. Three
other industrialists have been held
with Gardner.

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Sues for reinstatement

; LOS ANGELES.—A suit for re-
instatement to his job at MGM
was filed in superior court recent-

with contempt by the Thomas-

Trumbo’s suit said he was owed

$61,000 for the script for “Angel’s
Flights,” and $75,000 for a new

: seript at four-week intervals until

December, 1950.

Lawyer shot

George R. Andersen, lawyer
for many CIO unions on the Pa-
cific Coast, was shot and club
bed by two masked men whd
entered his San Francisco office,
Since the thugs seemed more in-
terested in papers than money,
it is believed other motives than
robbery were behind the incident

‘Protocol M’ exposed as forgery
written by former Goebbels aide

By WILLIAM PETERS

BERLIN—Moderate labor leaders who did not sanction the widespread protest walk-
outs held recently in the British zone are warning that a major strike movement may de-
velop unless radical and immediate steps are taken to deal with the acute foodshortage.
Union leaders of all shades of political opinion—including the head of the Trade Union

Federation in the western zone—

express agreement that workers

are leaving their jobs not be-

cause of political motives but be-

cause of hunger.
Million of workers are existing
on a daily diet of a few slices

Chilean senator flays US

MEXICO CITY—‘“What

dictates to Latin America

‘is happening in Chile is a

violent reflection of the North American offensive,” Chilean
Senator Salvador Ocampo told a mass meeting staged here

by leading Mexican unions in

As a member of the CTAL-
affiliated Chilean Federation of
Labor (CTCH), Senator Ocampo
declared that miners’ strikes which
had been the signal for govern-
ment attacks with police and
troops were called fully within
the law.

Outlining the general political
situation in Latin America, he

in Sydney and Melbourne.

dollar crisis.

Dollar ‘austerity’ hits Australi®

SYDNEY—The dollar-guided axe, falling on newspapermen’s
and printers’ heads because of newsprint cuts, has struck at
leaders of the Australian Journalists Association.

AJA President Arthur Crouch and Vice-President Harry
Sherring have been fired by the Sydney Morning Herald, Aus-
tralia’s leading morning paper. Both had long service with the
Herald, but they earmed the management’s enmity when they
successfully led newsmen and printers to a joint victory in a
recent lockout. The AJA branded the firings a deliberate anti-
union move and is planning a campaign, in alllamce with other
unions, to win reinstatement of the two men.

The dollar crisis, expected to bring a loss of 100,000 jobs,
hit the newspaper and publishing imdustries first, because Aus-
tralia hasn’t the dollars to buy all the newsprint it needs. He-
trenchment is already under way at the major newspapers

The unions point out tha¢ the publishers have sufficient
profitsy and reserves, as well as increased advertising revenue,
to meet the newsprint cuts. They are demanding that profits,
not the bread and butter of newspaper workers, pay for the

American policy in China
‘hunger, coldness, terror’

PARIS—American foreign policy today is shaped by
Wall Street’s desire to rule the world—a policy that to the
Chinese people has meant “starvation, coldness and terror,”
President Chu Hsueh-fan of the Chinese Association of Labor

charged in a public statement
here opposing the Marshall plan.

Chu, considered among the con-
servative leaders of: world labor,
harshly attacked the “secret
schemes” of U.S. monopolists “to
make China-a colony.” He de-
clared that Kuomintang China,
is being “ruthlessly oppressed ana
trodden down by Chiang Kai-
shek’s Gestapo and American im-
perialism,”

Originally an appointee of the
Chiang Kai-shek .. government,
Chu broke with it in 1946 when
the U.S.-supported Kuomintang
party outlawed strikes, raided and
forcibly occupied union offices,
labor hospitals and welfare cen-
ters and arrested all CAL leaders
at hand. :

(The crackdown came, Chu ex-
plained in. an interview with Al-
lied Labor News last July, be-
cause workers in Kuomintang
China and Communist-led areas

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were united in their opposition to
civil war. The unions on both
sides of the lines remained joined
in the CAL. The government tried
to force Chu and other CAL
leaders to turn over the reins
of union leadership to government
puppets and to oust from the CAL
all unions in Communist-led areas.
When this failed, it tried to wipe
out the unions, which are still
functioning underground in Kuom-
ingtang areas.)

Chiang’s regime, in’ a desper-
ate attempt to avoid “final and
utter crumbling,” Chu said, “is
intensifying the civil war, sell-
ing out more and more of
China’s sovereignty in the hope

of preserving his dictatorial
powers.”
Besides heading the Chinese

labor movement, Chu is a vice-| '

president of the World Federa-
tion of Trade Unions, whose ex-
ecutive bureau is planning to de-
bate the Marshall plan at its
February session. The debate was
requested by CIO delegates, who
voiced their support of the Mar-
shall plan at the last WEFTU
session,

support of the people of. Chile.

noted that it was characterized
by the “tremendous offensive” of
North American
terests to which some govern:
ments, notably those of Dutra in
Brasil, Grou San Martin in Cuba,
and Gonzalez Videla in Chile, had
delivered themselves. ’

He recalled that the people of
Paraguay, jealous of their inde-
pendence, had risen against a
tyrannical government which had
been enabled to put down the
revolt with arms obtained from
the Peron government of Ar-
genina and US monopoly.

The Chilean people, Ocampo
continued, had made the great-
est sacrifices during the coun-
try’s history, in: order to main-
tain independénce and ensure pro-
gress. :
~The war of 1789, for the pos-
session of mineral wealth, had
called forth their heroic quali-
ties even though in the end US.
companies and agents had taken
advantage of the situation to ob-
tain Control of nitrate wealth
and copper deposits.

The working class had led the
people in this long struggle for
the betterment of living condi-
tions and the progress of the
country. In 1908, 1910, 1912, 1919,
1920 and 1925, the Chilean work-
ers had shed blood to preserve
liberty. Blood had been shed by
the government, in action against

the labor movement.

“It is for’ these reasons that
what is happening now does not
shock us unduly. We have in-
herited a tradition of resistance
which we are going to sustain
once again,” Ocampo stated.

imperialist in-

of dry bread and a few ounces
of potatoes and cereals. Many of
them don’t have shoes or the neée-
cessary basic clothes. Textiles and
shoes, along with vast quantities
of American and German food,
are traded on the black market
or distributed by German authori-
ties among their privileged favor- -
ites.

The workers, seeing food and
other necessary’ products chan-
neled to speculators, are demand-
ing ‘that unions share in the con-
trol of food collection and dis-
tribution. They also suggest that
part of Ruhr coal production, €%-
ported at high dollar profits under
Anglo-American direction, be sent
to countries which can offer food
in exchange.

To anyone on the spot, hunger
(and avoidable hunger at that) is
so plainly the cause of the present
strikes that attempts to confuse
the issue are becoming more and
more artificial. ‘

The British disclosure of “Pro-
tocol M’—a document allegedly
ordering German Communists to
sabotage all American and Bri-
tish efforts to raise German’s pro--
duction and living standards—feli
flat here and is now reliably
reported to be a forgery concoct-
ed by Hans Fritzsche, former
radio propaganda lieutenant to
Josef Goebbels.

LONDON —Several British news-
papers showed extreme wariness
in their reporting of “Protoco
M,” an alleged set of instructions
to German Communists to fo-
ment a general strike in the
Ruhr area.

‘The liberal Manchester Guar
dian carried its skepticism to the
point of not printing a line of
the story.

The London Times, one of the
world’s most highly respected cori-
servative newspapers, headlined
its report: “Alleged Plan of
Cominform.” While stating that
“it is considered in British cir
cles in Berlin” that the document
is genuine, the newspaper pointed
out that “no proof exists.”

‘It is now admitted here that
the document was derived . from
the columns of a notoriously
irresponsible French - licensed
paper, Der Kurier, in Berlin,

Protest U.S. films

Protesting the influx of American films and charging that Holly-
wood is seeking to capture the French market, thousands of actors,
writers and just plain movie-goers demonstrated recently in Paris,

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